Members’ News
Authors’ Club member Stephanie Williams’ The Education of Girls: Coming of age in 4 years that changed America 1966-1970 is published this month. This is the story of how the Vietnam war, racial strife and the birth of women’s liberation fundamentally changed women’s...
Remembering Jilly Cooper
By John Walsh The news of Jilly Cooper’s death on 5 October was covered, in the 24 hours that followed, with the kind of comprehensive admiration usually reserved for a fondly-recalled member of royalty. Not only did every newspaper carry her image on its front page;...Marina Warner at the Authors’ Club
We were thrilled to welcome the distinguished cultural historian, academic and fiction writer Dame Marina Warner to a well-attended lunch. Marina’s many award-winning books include Alone of All her Sex: The myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary, and Joan of Arc: The Image...Apologies for Absence – Remembering Geoff Gudgion
Words by Laurel Lindström We’ve lost a wonderful colleague and friend, the author Geoff Gudgion, to a devastating disease that took a mere few weeks to claim him. So how do we say we miss you? How do we say we’re so sorry to his family, when we don’t know them? How do...Congratulations to the Booker Prize nominees
We are thrilled to see Claire Adam, winner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award (BFNA) in 2020, on this year’s Booker Prize longlist for her quietly compelling second novel Love Forms (Faber). Claire was our lunch speaker in June, interviewed by club chair Lucy...Ben Markovits at the Authors’ Club
Words by Suzi Feay Writer and former professional basketball player Benjamin Markovits was brought up in Texas, London and Berlin; the author of ‘The Sidekick’, ‘Christmas in Austin’, ‘Playing Days’ and a trilogy of novels about Byron, he joined us in the Lady Violet...Best First Novel Award Winner Announced
The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Best First Novel Award is Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits (Fig Tree). This year’s guest adjudicator, novelist Tracy Chevalier, presented the £2,500 award at a reception at the National Liberal Club...Anne Sebba at the Authors’ Club
By Miranda Miller Last year I joined the Authors’ Club, which organises interesting literary events in the glamorous National Liberal Club, built by Alfred Waterhouse, the architect of the Natural History Museum. It’s a short walk from Embankment Station, a monument...